{"id":21554,"date":"2016-08-13T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21554"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:22:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:22:24","slug":"hour-seven-pregnant-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-seven-pregnant-pause\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Seven: Pregnant Pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnant Pause<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I awoke in an unfamiliar vehicle, with my husband at the wheel<\/p>\n<p>As we drove, my life-filled belly swelled to greater and greater proportions,<\/p>\n<p>each change in size bringing with it a different person in the driver&#8217;s seat<\/p>\n<p>The further we drove, the more blisteringly swollen my belly became<\/p>\n<p>On we trudged, with an unceasing parade of drivers,<\/p>\n<p>not one ever giving me the wheel<\/p>\n<p>The road began to rise and as we reached the summit of the hill<\/p>\n<p>I looked to my right to see a severe cliff with splintered rocks<\/p>\n<p>and angry swells of spume churning<\/p>\n<p>Instead of beginning the descent down the hill<\/p>\n<p>the car suddenly pitched right, sending the car sideways&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>burgeoning me first&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>down the craggy cliff towards the black water<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnant Pause &nbsp; I awoke in an unfamiliar vehicle, with my husband at the wheel As we drove, my life-filled belly swelled to greater and greater proportions, each change in size bringing with it a different person in the driver&#8217;s seat The further we drove,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21959,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21554\/revisions\/21959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}